BEIJING: China has been unusually open in reporting an accident on a submarine that killed all of its 70 men, but the cause of the disaster has not been disclosed and analysts said it might have been the result of a gas leak.
The accident, in Chinese territorial waters off its northeastern coast, was the result of mechanical problems during training, said Saturday's newspapers, which splashed reports of the disaster across their front pages.
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